BBC Proms has unveiled one of its most diverse programs as it prepares to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of founder-conductor Sir Henry Wood.Celebrating the 50 years of Apollo 11 la…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:55PMThe Tony Award-nominated musical “On Your Feet!” will be on stage from June 14 through August 31, 2019, at the London Coliseum. Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell (Ki…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 10:50PMThree years ago I was introduced to Amy Marcs, a performer/playwright, who’s incredibly moving and humorous play Nice T!ts, about Amy’s journey with Breast Cancer, made me a forever fan …
SOURCE: Call Me Adam at 10:48PMListen: “Gary” Opens on Broadway to Decidedly Mixed Reviews! The Final Week of the Broadway Season is Upon Us! “Octet” Extends Before Performances Begin! [display_podcast] “Today o…
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This comedic sequel to “Titus Andronicus” finds Nathan Lane and Kristine Nielsen cleaning up after a Shakespearean blood bath.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMTony Award-winning musical “The Light in the Piazza” will soon get its London premiere at the Royal Festival Hall beginning June 14 through July 5, 2019.Directed by multiple Olivier Awar…
SOURCE: www.blouinartinfo.com at 09:26PMBlack Pearl Sings! by Frank Higgins, at Alliance for New Music-Theatre, is an absorbing production with an uplifting message. This witty play was successfully produced here in 2016 at MetroS…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:18PMNathan Lane and Kristine Nielsen, two of the funniest people on the face of the earth, play street cleaners tasked with carting away the dead after the civil wars that brought down the Roman…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:08PMIn response to the growing momentum behind the #MeToo Movement, Bowie State University Theatre has dedicated their season to the creation of a new, devised performance entitled #MeToo. Throu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:06PMGary A Sequel to Titus Andronicus officially opens on Broadway today, April 21, 2019.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06PM Before the show, there’s no real need to read the Playbill to learn that BURN THIS takes place some...Continue Reading
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SOURCE: broadwayselect.com at 09:03PMDon't let the title scare you. All you need to know about Shakespeare's infamously bloody revenge tragedy before laughing yourself silly at Taylor Mac's Gary A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, is…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:01PMGary is a mess, deliberately so. Written by the downtown provocateur Taylor Mac making his Broadway debut, it stars three of the best comic stage actors in America as three minor characters …
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“Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus” never lights up; “Burn This” flames on with Driver.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:30PMSee what critics think of the world premiere from playwright Taylor Mac, starring Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen, and Julie White.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:06PMTaylor Mac, the radically subversive theatre artist, and Nathan Lane, America’s stage comedy sweetheart, make an unlikely pairing. Lane is the star
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00PMThere are no guarantees of success when attempting to stage ambitious new work. If one were seeking proof that the theater can be a fickle muse and that past accomplishment is no insurance a…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 08:00PMWhat’s so funny about mounds of bloody, dismembered, and spurting bodies, flatulence and excrement, necrophilia, and penises – lots and lots of penises? That depends on your sense of hum…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMAtrocities happen. Shakespearean-level atrocities, dismembered-and-baked-in-a-pie atrocities. Humanity’s responses – tears, mockery, more atrocity – are ludicrously inadequate, but rea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00PMIt’s got fart gags galore, but “Gary” isn’t a gas — it’s more like hot air. Subtitled “A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” the labored comedy that opened Sunday night picks up whe…
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★★★★★ The profane and the sublime meet—with Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen and Julie White—in Taylor Mac's brilliant Broadway debut
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:50PM★★★★ Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen, and Julie White make art from horror, with help from Taylor Mac
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:49PM★★ A 1942 World War II pamphlet brought to the stage a bit on the late side
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 07:40PM“Gary” is a mess, deliberately so. Written by the downtown provocateur Taylor Mac making his Broadway debut, it stars three of the best comic stage actors in America as three minor chara…
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Classical ballets present a contemporary challenge: “Ballet, like so much else in our current society, is infused with sexist elements that are also elements of beauty. To tease these apar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:30PMMany artists cite their family as one of their main sources of inspiration, but violinist Yevgeny Kutik can make a stronger claim than most. Even some of the repertoire he performs stems dir…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:08PMSure, the conflict is about packaging and digital rights – but it’s older than that, dating back to Robert Kennedy’s Department of Justice and a deal brokered in 1962. Now, “the two …
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“On the hunt for a less problematic Simone de Beauvoir who can speak for literally all women at once and also not be so serious. This seems like it should be simple?” (Yes, this is a sat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:30PMThe cast of Mean Girls made 'fetch' happen in a big way at Broadway Sessions recently. Cast members Rick Younger, Jonalyn Saxer, DeMarius Copes, Talya Rae Groves, Ashley De LaRosa, Riza Taka…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:01PMSure, men have dominated comedy for a long time. But pregnant women aren’t about to let that stop them. And actually, says one comic, “When I got pregnant with my second child, things ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:00PMThe music festival actually commissions several massive artworks to go with each year. At first, it was connected closely with Burning Man; now, 20 years in, things are slightly more interna…
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This uncanny, phantasmagorical work from the Lightning Rod Special troupe is a musical cabaret about abortion. That’s right.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:44PMHearing that Area Stage Company is mounting The Wizard of Oz might make childless theatergoers pass. It would be their loss. Director Giancarlo Rodaz, his inexhaustible cast and creative cre…
SOURCE: Florida Theater On Stage at 12:42PMUnlike English-language stories created for the U.S. market, narco novelas offer “a compelling complexity in the face of the simplistic story lines that emerge out of Hollywood. Narco nove…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PMHadestown officially opened on Broadway on April 17. As per Broadway tradition, the Legacy Robe was awarded to the ensemble member with the most Broadway credits, in this case, T. Oliver Reid
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:19PMDid you notice? Some people sure did. “The alter-typeface became a trending topic on Twitter. Mitch Goldstein, a design professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, tweeted, ‘Saw …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:15PMWhat good is sitting alone in your room this week If you don't already have plans to see a Broadway show, come out to see your favorite Broadway stars in a cabaret act instead. After Broadwa…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:01PMThe Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum was all set to open a show on the Rosetta Stone, with accompanying Egyptian and Mesopotamian artifacts, when they invited University of Iow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:00PMIn Dougie Blaxland’s fascinating new play, The Long Walk Back, currently on a national tour, we see former England cricket international Chris Lewis (Martin Edwards) contemplating his life…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThe husband-and-husband team talk about their latest co-written musical The Family Project, why they won’t smooth over their art, and why students are the best audiences.
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The façade of the UN’s Secretariat Building is a mirage. – Jan Herman
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:41AMIs … the circus? – The Stage (UK)
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AMA selection of European stage readings in NYC, Bohemian National Hall, May 10-12, 2019 In spring 2019, the REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH theater festival, honoring Vaclav Havel, will add a weekend of …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 11:19AMFosseVerdon has now aired its first two episodes, and the ratings are in How does the show measure up
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:04AMIn adapting Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage, award-winning scribe Aaron Sorkin looked at the iconic characters of the recently named "best-loved" American novel with fre…
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If life is a race, all the characters here are lagging behind the leader, just hoping to keep up and find space to breath amidst the density of inevitable heartbreak that comes along with li…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:59AM🍸 Hadestown – Walter Kerr Theater – April 17 through September 1. Cast: Reeve Carney, Eva Noblezada, Amber Gray, Patrick . Page, Andre de Shields, Jewelle
SOURCE: theaterwithatwist.com at 10:57AMPeter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere review Hadestown, Burn This, Hillary and Clinton, Socrates @ The Public Theater, FX’s Fosse/Verdon Screening and Conversation @ 92Y, a…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 10:56AMBy Douglas Mayo
Take a look at Scott Rylander's great rehearsal photos for the UK professional premiere of 5 time Tony-nominated musical Amour.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:47AMTheresa Lola, 24 years old and a former finance major who preferred poetry, is actually the city’s third youth poet laureate. She says, “Poetry was instrumental for me, to find my voice …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AMRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a challenging and much-loved absurdist tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, has had long runs and featured many famous actors. Fells Point Corner Theatre’s a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:20AMWho is Taylor Mac A question that fans, critics, fellow artists, and even Taylor have been asking since Mac first made an appearance on the downtown theatre scene.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:01AMIn 2016, John Cho “became the unwitting beneficiary of #StarringJohnCho, a social movement that imagined Cho standing in for, say, Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible and Daniel Craig in Spe…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AMOverall, All You Need is Love might not offer any major surprises, but it is still a warm and nostalgic show that will be enjoyed by fans of The Beatles.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMHe played ‘anxious weirdo nerds’ in Pitch Perfect and Dear Evan Hansen, but on his soul-baring new album Ben Platt has a new role ... himself
‘I really like playing people who aren’t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMAfter child molestation accusations of “Leaving Neverland,” books about the pop icon are already being rewritten. Who will have the last word?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMTootsie is known for being one of the most acclaimed and profitable movies of the 1980s, and now all the memorable characters are getting a second life in the new musical of the same name. J…
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The Tony nominee, currently starring in the title role in Beetlejuice, discusses bringing his character to life, bringing edge to Broadway, and balancing the show’s heart with its big laug…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:52AMBy Douglas Mayo
Aaron Sidwell and Lauren Samuels lead the cast in the Barn Theatre's production of William Shakespeare's Henry V in May 2019.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:52AMSometimes, as with 2012’s monster hit “Gangnam Style” and all of the K-pop since, “all it takes is one song to introduce a new culture to the mainstream, paving the way for other act…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AMMillennial Notes Roald Dahl Imagines a Rich, Grotesque Dreamworld by Rachel Norby This stage rendition of Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” is pure magic. It’s a delec…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:21AMIn space, no one can hear you go extinct.
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SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AMBasically: “Free apps marketed to people with depression or who want to quit smoking are hemorrhaging user data to third parties like Facebook and Google — but often don’t admit it in …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:00AMHear what Eric Woodall, the Producing Artistic Director of North Carolina Theatre, Betsy Ludwig, Executive Director of Arts Access, and Doug Kapp, a local actor who also happens to be legall…
SOURCE: Beltline to Broadway at 09:00AMBy May Antaki. May Antaki offers a brief look at the vibrant Toronto theatre community.
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Paul T Davies reviews Feast From The East, The Ink Festival On The Road on tour at the Headgate Theatre Colchester.
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SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:49AMThe colonial fairytale doesn’t hold up at all in our contemporary world. Crusoe, to put it bluntly, was a slave trader – but somehow it became a children’s story: “Educationists agre…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:30AMWe had been left alone in your living room to debate living versus dying. You were sick. I was scared.
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SOURCE: Medium at 08:28AMSomething old, something new, something borrowed, something bluesy. This about sums up the sometimes exciting, sometimes repetitive, sometimes off the track lavish sweaty and sultry prod…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:12AMFoad Satterfield — Things Known: Through June 9, Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road, Moraga. Satterfield contemplates experience, nature and meditation expresse…
SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News at 08:00AMNight of the Living Dead is an instantly recognisable title; George Romero basically kick-started the zombie genre in his 1968 flick, though they were just ‘ghouls’ then, a moniker adher…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWhen Fiona Shaw decided to perform excerpts from T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” in (and near) an empty fountain in Central Park, she didn’t want it announced – and there was only a b…
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